Alexis' school doesn't celebrate Halloween.
It's seriously something I never even considered a possibility because pumpkin carving? Dressing up in silly clothes? Begging for candy? I'll be honest. I don't need a holiday to want to do those things. HALLOWEEN IS FUN. In my head it is a completely commercialized holiday with one purpose: get momma lots of chocolate.
Y'all who have kids who actually like candy may not see it that way, but I eagerly await the return from trick-or-treating when I get to pillage Alexis' pumpkin and pick out what I want, er, what I don't want her to have. Whichever. It's the same difference because she'll eat three or four things and then remember she doesn't like sweet stuff. Happy Halloween, indeed!
I wouldn't say that I am overcompensating for this lack of holiday spirit at her school, but not putting together treat bags for her classmates and a few other random miracles of scheduling and such have led to me managing to get more Halloween decorations up than I have the past few years. The other HUGE factor is that Alexis can actually help put up decorations. It happens to be something that she begs to do from the moment she opens her eyes in the morning until she closes them at night. Girlfriend is definitely feeling the ghostly love. She has done a lot to help, including being my chief conspirator in a little bit of new awesome.
There's a lot of new awesome stuff in the yard this year, but this is my favorite. Mostly it's my favorite because it was Alexis' idea. I've seen the idea done before, but I don't know how her little brain cooked it up. All I know is that I approve.
Alexis said we should do a "witch crashing into the flowers," so she got a witch crashing into the flowers.
The chair and flower pot are old. Like, REALLY old. The chair is one that I rescued from the trash probably 15 years ago with the idea that I would repair the seat. But, then I realized a flower pot would fit perfectly in the hole that was left when I removed the seat completely, so that became the new plan.
Of course, I threw some mums in there and then made use of Alexis' witch costume from last Halloween. It's always fun when you already have a witch's broom and tights sitting around.
The shoes are a pair that I stopped wearing approximately five minutes after I bought them. They are miserably uncomfortable so I've always hated them. Now that they've been spray-painted black (they were brown leather) (I love that the fact that I spray-painted a perfectly good pair of shoes is probably making some of you shoe people twitch) and are quite lovely.
Oh. And the legs. It turns out that if you start to ask yourself something like, "Where can I buy . . . " the answer is Amazon. Always Amazon. I found inflatable mannequin legs there. My "Related Items to Consider" are super fun now that Amazon thinks I'm into inflatable stuff. Ahem.
Totally worth it.
